Tech

These startups aim to smash Apple and Google’s smartphone duopoly

Two privacy-first, open-source platforms want to give consumers what the tech giants won’t. But starting from scratch isn’t easy.

We keep falling for phishing emails, and Google just revealed why

Here’s what Google has learned by blocking 100 million phishing attacks on Gmail users—every day.

Updated: Roku is rethinking its answer to Alexa and Siri

Facebook’s foray into video subscriptions is way behind Amazon and Apple

“Dammit Siri, I wanted baby wipes, not disinfectant wipes!”

A new study suggests conversational commerce is here to stay, but voice-assisted shopping has a way to go.

How treating work like summer camp can improve your team’s performance

A former camp counselor reflects on what she learned from the job that she consistently left out of her résumé.

If Samsung says the headphone jack is dead, it’s dead

Never a company to capriciously get rid of features, Samsung has decided to say goodbye to the headphone jack—at least on its new Note10 phones.

Samsung’s Galaxy Note gets bigger and pricier (and smaller and cheaper)

The smartphone that’s always been about more, more, more gets its most high-end version yet in the Galaxy Note10+—along with the less over-the-top Note10.

Exclusive: Equinox adds in-home equipment and streaming classes to compete with Peloton

The fitness company further diversifies its portfolio with a new digital venture that attempts to recreate its signature workouts in one’s own living room.

This nontoxic lawn care startup wants to take on Roundup

Sunday uses fewer toxic ingredients to take care of your lawn and even kills weeds.

Google keeps an eye on what you buy, and it’s not alone

Google’s ambitions for transaction data are on display in the “Purchases” page, which even tracks what its enterprise and education users are buying.

Cutting the cord? Here’s why your cable company barely cares anymore

Seven very simple principles for designing more ethical AI

Users must be empowered, not overpowered, by technology. The only way to stop questionable AI from collecting and using personal data is to design it with the end user in mind.

Last seen in 1998, Apple’s Claris software brand is back

FileMaker, a venerable Apple subsidiary focused on business software, is expanding its ambitions—under a once-familiar name.

The first consumers are getting Apple’s credit card, starting today

The card is titanium, but it’s the companion iPhone software that defines Apple’s foray into personal credit.

5 free apps for getting your morning started

Wake up! And then get ready for the day ahead.

8chan is getting a lifeline from a company that services far-right sites like The Daily Stormer

I’m a security expert and this is how robocall-blocking apps violate your privacy

NCC Group studied the apps’ privacy policies and found that many send out information at night while you’re sleeping; share your phone number with third-party companies; look at your text messages, phone calls, and contacts; and can learn what other apps are on your phone.

Atlanta’s black tech founders are changing entrepreneurship in America. Can they avoid Silicon Valley’s mistakes?

Tristan Walker, Jewel Burks Solomon, Paul Judge, and other founders are part of a startup revolution that’s bringing tech talent, VC money, and serious change to the black mecca of Atlanta.